【作者簡介】
保羅•法蘭奇(Paul French),生於倫敦,求學於倫敦和格拉斯哥,曾在上海工作、生活多年,齣版過多部傳播甚廣的分析、評論中國的專著。其力作《午夜北平》一度上榜《紐約時報》暢銷書單和英國廣播公司第四電颱《本周佳作》(Book of the Week)節 目。它還將由英國榮譽影視公司(Kudos Film and Television in the UK)製作成一部迷你電視連續劇,在世界範圍內播齣。
【譯者簡介】
蘭瑩,先後就讀於外交學院英語係、中國人民大學美術學院。現為公務員,從事對外文化藝術交流工作。業餘從事文學、曆史、美術領域的翻譯,已齣版譯著三本。
A father hunts for his daughter's killer in the gripping true story "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city's former British consul ETC Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer, with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller, the Triads, and a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion...by all but ETC Werner. With a network of private investigators and informers, he followed the trail deep into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult, heroin addicts and disappearing brothels, the truth behind the crime can now be told - and is more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder, Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. "An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last". (David Peace, author of "Red Riding" and "The Damned United"). "Fascinating and irresistible. I couldn't put it down". (John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"). 'Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery, but all the facts are true". (Kirsty Lang, BBC Radio 4 ("Book of the Week")). "Engrossing true crime whodunnit...A terrific read". (Andrew Holgate, "Sunday Times"). "Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime, he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil". ("The Economist"). "French has an easygoing prose style...well chosen quotes bring a new vigour and crispness...He succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "It is the storytelling flair that marks "Midnight in Peking" so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads and twists, it sucks the reader in like the best fiction". ("The Scotsman"). "The shocking true tale, combined with prose you can't drag yourself away from, makes "Midnight in Peking" a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved". ("Sunday Express"). Born in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea, a biography of Shanghai adman and adventurer Carl Crow, and a history of foreign correspondents in China.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 英文原版 推理 小說 曆史 北京 凶殺 中國
令人感念潸然。時代的氛圍與細節在作者的筆下鮮活如生,讀者跟書中老父,一同見證那遲來的公道,如何埋葬在大歷史動盪、無情官僚與腐朽的地下世界,見證一個異邦女孩的成長和枉死於無聲,見證這父親古闆狂譟學究形象以外的深情、堅執與孤寂的命運,見證他大半生認知的中國經歷苦難與翻天覆地的改變。
評分令人感念潸然。時代的氛圍與細節在作者的筆下鮮活如生,讀者跟書中老父,一同見證那遲來的公道,如何埋葬在大歷史動盪、無情官僚與腐朽的地下世界,見證一個異邦女孩的成長和枉死於無聲,見證這父親古闆狂譟學究形象以外的深情、堅執與孤寂的命運,見證他大半生認知的中國經歷苦難與翻天覆地的改變。
評分令人感念潸然。時代的氛圍與細節在作者的筆下鮮活如生,讀者跟書中老父,一同見證那遲來的公道,如何埋葬在大歷史動盪、無情官僚與腐朽的地下世界,見證一個異邦女孩的成長和枉死於無聲,見證這父親古闆狂譟學究形象以外的深情、堅執與孤寂的命運,見證他大半生認知的中國經歷苦難與翻天覆地的改變。
評分令人感念潸然。時代的氛圍與細節在作者的筆下鮮活如生,讀者跟書中老父,一同見證那遲來的公道,如何埋葬在大歷史動盪、無情官僚與腐朽的地下世界,見證一個異邦女孩的成長和枉死於無聲,見證這父親古闆狂譟學究形象以外的深情、堅執與孤寂的命運,見證他大半生認知的中國經歷苦難與翻天覆地的改變。
評分令人感念潸然。時代的氛圍與細節在作者的筆下鮮活如生,讀者跟書中老父,一同見證那遲來的公道,如何埋葬在大歷史動盪、無情官僚與腐朽的地下世界,見證一個異邦女孩的成長和枉死於無聲,見證這父親古闆狂譟學究形象以外的深情、堅執與孤寂的命運,見證他大半生認知的中國經歷苦難與翻天覆地的改變。
Midnight in Peking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載